Re: NM 0.6.6 doesn't work

[Alexander Sack <asac ubuntu com>]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 06:22:58PM +0100, Thomas Ilnseher wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I installed NM 0.6.6 from portage.
> Sadly, It doesn't work. (wlan DOES Work, however!)
> 
> (I'm writing this over wlan!)
> The connection is encrypted by WPA2.
> 
> This stuff is in my dmesg:
> 
> b43-phy3: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
> Registered led device: b43-phy3::tx
> Registered led device: b43-phy3::rx
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
> wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:18:4d:bc:d5:f6
> wlan0: authenticated
> wlan0: associate with AP 00:18:4d:bc:d5:f6
> wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:18:4d:bc:d5:f6 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
> wlan0: associated
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
> wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
> wlan0: deauthenticating by local choice (reason=3)
> 
> NM doesn't provide any meaningfull error messages however!

By local choice usually means that the association was explicitly
stopped by NM or the supplicant. Usually this happens when that there
is a timeout, which often indicates that you have driver issues.

To get meaningful output, stop NM and start it from command line like:
NetworkManager --no-daemon

 - Alexander